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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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An Angry" American Person" and Small Businessman
Uploaded: Dec 19, 2009
I don't think I am the only American Person who is insulted by the invocation by both sides of the aisle in Congress, especially the Senate, about what "The American People" want in this health care matter.
Senators need to take advantage of their excellent health care program to spend time with mental health professionals. There are many of them who need to connect reality with the rhetoric they espouse. I am sure there are plenty of therapists in the Beltway who can include these clowns on their already full patient loads.
I am a small business owner, and the Republicans claim to represent folks like me. They sure as hell are not, from my vantage point.
Talk about how important supporting small businesses in this country is blather from what I can tell.
Insurance of all sorts are a huge expense for small businesses--it really SUCKS! General Liability, Workmans Compensation, Health Care for Employees, etc. are huge overhead expenses that seem to go up every year, regardless of the state of the business or the economy. At least that is my experience.
This American Person wants to know what can be done, beyond the bogus notion of the banking industry re-opening credit to the country's small businesses, to make it more affordable to have the types of insurance coverage that a responsible small business owner should have. Health care is part of it, but it goes beyond that.
"The American People?" Give me a break. The folks on Capitol Hill are just acting in a partisan matter, jockeying for position. It has nothing to do with the supposed "American People" they claim to speak for.
GOP Senator Graham from South Carolina put it better than anyone else has, to paraphrase: the people voted, and we should follow the vote.
And it ain't gonna happen.
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